How do we build community?

When a pastor is preaching a series, they can't just be focused on the immediate goal of only preparing for the next sermon. A pastor has to be thinking and praying about the entire series. That is why when I came across this article by the Washington Post, - I thought this speaks to my sermon in a couple of weeks. How this will work into my sermon overall is still to early to tell, but I've put it into my file and will come back to it next week when I preach on the community of the Kingdom.

This article talks about how people in our culture are isolated and lack any sense of community or intimate relationships...

Social Isolation Growing in the U.S.